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"The IT aspect of medical marijuana is only just being approached," says John Lee, founder of Boyes Hot Springs, Calif.-based Plainview Systems, a new online service that allows qualified patients to "create virtual collectives and, through those collectives, buy, sell and trade marijuana goods, products and services."
Four months after Intuit, the maker of small business-focused financial software, announced its acquisition of Medfusion, a maker of front- and back-office software for improving patient-to-provider communications, the merger has completed, with Intuit's Quicken Health Group combining with Medfusion to become Intuit Health.
With three big purchases in less than a month, Ingenix - the IT arm of the payer UnitedHealth - continues to bolster itself for a fast-changing healthcare environment.
Smartphones, telephones such as the iPhone or Blackberry that can run programs and connect to the Internet in addition to their more mundane uses, are increasingly being used as venues for healthcare information technology.
L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation’s largest public health plan, has approved $529,000 to support five Los Angeles County community clinics’ health information technology projects.
Staff at Open Door Family Medical Center in Ossining, N.Y., last month were preparing for a site visit to determine whether they would land a HIMSS Davies Community Health Organization (CHO) award this year.
Payers aren’t always in the loop when physicians and patients get together to map out a healthcare regimen. IBM is looking to the clouds to change that.
In an effort to help financial institutions understand how the HITECH Act and HIPAA directly affects their operations, four industry trade groups recently banded together to release a white paper "Compliance Guidelines for Financial Institutions in the Healthcare Sector: HITECH and the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules."
Joining an ever-growing number of health plans looking to help their members access health information wherever they may roam, Highland has announced the launch of its Highmark Health@Hand iPhone application.
Maine healthcare providers launched their first official telehealth summit on Aug. 17 with a message to the rest of the country: The first state to see the sun rise each day also aims to be one of the leaders in this rapidly growing healthcare delivery philosophy.